Kamakura Museum
Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
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Junzo Sakakura's 1951 building, a light box lifted over a pond - the starting point of postwar Japanese modernism.
Built after the 1923 earthquake to safeguard the temples' treasures, strong in realist Kamakura sculpture.
Housed in a 1904 bank whose dome, burned in the 1923 earthquake, was rebuilt; an Important Cultural Property.
Raw silk shipped from this port funded Japan's modernisation; the museum follows the whole process.
Ten thousand dolls from 140 countries, showing how far one shared form diverges between cultures.
Beside a Yayoi moated settlement, where the shape of a ditched village can be walked rather than imagined.
For the creator of Doraemon, showing the originals - colour, corrections and all - rather than the printed page.
Objects made to hide a forbidden faith - Kannon figures concealing crosses inside them.
Home of the Katsusaka pottery type, whose middle-Jomon vessels are almost overloaded with ornament.
On the medieval Buddhist sculpture of Sagami, showing how Kamakura's style spread into the countryside.